robert young
Posts: 361
Nickname: funbunny
Registered: Sep, 2003
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Re: Rapid Hiring & Firing to Build the Best Teams
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Posted: Feb 8, 2010 12:56 PM
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> We also test people for general brightness/speed, and for > attitude (fun, confident, humble, ethical, kind, etc).
Do you eliminate the "humble, ethical, kind", for example? Your holier-than-thou text has none of those attributes, fur sure. Or is it required that the worker bees have those attributes, but overseers not?
So, here's a concrete problem, if you're willing. Go off to read this: http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/writing-efficient-sql-set-based-speed-phreakery/
While it deals with RDBMS, SQL, and T-SQL dialect of SQL Server, detailed understanding of those isn't required to answer the problem.
The problem: Peso solved the challenge in what can be described as a non-conventional way from the point of view of the vast majority of coders let loose on relational databases; they just don't know any better. His solution is not just syntactically different from what a procedural (common) coder would do, it is semantically different because it is semantically congruent with a relational database.
Most, if not all, relationalists (humble self included) have been labeled "poisonous" when straying from common coding approaches when surrounded by common coders. What happens at Kayak? Would you eject Peso because he wasn't a "good team player"? Would you even know that a better way exists if it doesn't come from you?
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